I am the administrative author/functional steward for this blogspace. I currently have six other neighbors who help out as "guest authors" with full posting privileges, I have just invited two more, and I have one other whom I'm going to invite again.
We are going to run this operation on "open source, open space" principles.Whoever shows up are the right people.
For my guest authors, I'm available for phone consultation at 216-255-6640. Here's an interesting snippet from Wikipedia about the mind-set they refer to as open-source technology (OST):
- Whoever comes is the right people: this alerts the participants that attendees of a session class as "right" simply because they care to attend
- Whatever happens is the only thing that could have: this tells the attendees to pay attention to events of the moment, instead of worrying about what could possibly happen
- Whenever it starts is the right time: clarifies the lack of any given schedule or structure and emphasizes creativity and innovation
- When it's over, it's over: encourages the participants not to waste time, but to move on to something else when the fruitful discussion ends
There also exists another tentative "law", usually referred to as the "Law of Two Feet" (or "The Law of Mobility"), which reads as follows: If at any time during our time together you find yourself in any situation where you are neither learning nor contributing, use your two feet. Go to some other place where you may learn and contribute.
This last "law" emphasizes that no one should sit in sessions that they find boring; instead only people genuinely interested in the topic at hand should attend the discussions.
Beyond offering a meeting-methodology, OST can also express a philosophy and a life practice. People have frequently[citation needed] copied and adapted OST to private open space meetings and for public open-space conference purposes, including many practices not originally part of the initial scope.
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